William Arkin of Human Rights
Watch was on Pacifica's "Democracy Now" this
morning (Wednesday, June 8), saying that NATO's bombing
of the Serbian TV building in Belgrade was not a war
crime. He "explained" that the journalists,
janitors, and other workers who were killed in the
building had all been warned. Arkin of HRW saw nothing
criminal in killing people who were engaged in offering a
non-NATO view of events, provided they had been warned.
To be fair, he choked on saying it. He said bombing
journalists may be wrong under some moral code or other,
he wasn't sure, but that didn't make it a war crime, did
it?

Amy Goodman, the host of DN, did not ask Arkin
to respond to the Canadian attorney seeking to indict
Clinton and Blair for the highest war crime of all -- the
war itself. The Canadian pointed out that Nurenberg
decreed that the most serious war crime was a crime
against the peace, which this was. The killing of
Yugoslav soldiers was a war crime, let alone civilians
and journalists, he said.